Affiliated Departments and Programs

We are committed to the proposition that society is a form of communication. Our core pursuit is advancement of research, scholarship, and teaching in the various ways that human beings make, disseminate and share meaningful symbols as individuals and social groups. To us, communication is the foundational practice of human experience and culture is the shared, lived realities of particular groups. We investigate the ways in which the technologies of communication record, transmit and shape what we know and do. » View our website

We believe that journalism has a serious public mission, and can make a difference in the world. We want to educate those who agree. Opportunities abound in the media world, but the opportunity to do compelling work that informs, engages and matters to the societies in which we live-this is what drives our faculty, motivates our students, and shapes our basic approach.
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We provide students with comprehensive, interdisciplinary training in the history, criticism, theory, and aesthetics of motion pictures. Our program is analogous to an English or Comparative Literature program, only here, the focus is on film, broadcasting, digital video, and other media. Our curriculum combines academic study in the department with professional training at New York City labs, archives, and other repositories. » View our website

We have established leading-edge programs that focus on the Entertainment, Media and Technology (EMT) industries. Students in Stern's MBA Program are able to specialize in Entertainment, Media and Technology. Over 17 courses are offered at the graduate level that deal with the marketing, finance, management, accounting, legal, and economic issues facing entertainment and media firms. Industries covered include, film, home video, television, cable, music, sports, and publishing. At the undergraduate level there are 9 courses offered as part of Stern's B.S.B.A. degree. These course deal with the business aspects of the entertainment industry. Students may also take courses at the Tisch School of the Arts. » View our website

We prepare professionals for leadership roles in the design and production, evaluation and use of educational materials and environments for various technologies: computer-based multimedia, network telecommunications, and television. As its central framework, our program focuses on cognitive science and constructivist views of learning and instruction, and their implications for the design and use of educational media and technologies. Current and potential developments in educational technology are situated in historical context, both of the field itself and of wider educational and social trends, movements and reforms. Other theoretical perspectives are drawn from the fields of human symbolization, human development, communication, aesthetics, and curriculum. » View our website

We are a small innovative college within New York University, giving students the opportunity to design a program of study tailored to their own needs and interests. When students choose Gallatin, they take on the exciting challenge of creating their own curriculum and unique plan for learning. They pursue their individual interests from a personal perspective by taking courses in the various schools of New York University, engaging in self-directed education through independent studies, and participating in experiential learning through internships at New York City's countless institutions, businesses, and arts organizations. Undergraduates experience a thorough grounding in the history of ideas and great books, and graduate students pursue advanced study in interdisciplinary modes of thought.

We are committed to comparative research that seeks theories that allow for the enormous diversity in human life. Our program of study includes a holistic approach to the study of humans and seeks to expose students to all four of the traditional subdisciplines of anthropology - Archaeological Anthropology, Sociocultural Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, and Physical Anthropology. The emphasis, however, is on intensive training in one subfield. Our faculty also encourage study outside anthropology, where the related fields of biological sciences, statistics, languages, media, history, and the humanities enrich the understanding of particular problems.
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We emphasize both theoretical creativity and substantive empirical research on important social issues. It encourages a range of analytic perspectives and maintains strength in both quantitative and qualitative methods. The graduate program complements research on the contemporary United States-including New York City-with international and historical studies. Among its areas of strength are gender studies; social inequality; crime, law, and deviance; organizations and economy; political sociology; social movements; urban sociology; race and ethnicity; culture; and theory. » View our website

We offer courses of study leading to the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy. Our programs are designed to prepare students for advanced work and teaching in American studies. Interdepartmental by definition, the student's course of study is arranged with the director of the program and the director of graduate studies and includes seminars offered in the program and selected courses offered in departments, programs, and institutes across the University.
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We provide an academic center for studying the effects of contemporary choices concerning the legal rules affecting the production, manipulation, storage, and dissemination of, and access to, information in the digitally networked society. » View our website